Dilip Vengsarkar, Mohammad Azharuddin, MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane maintain led India to an ODI sequence neat sweep and Rohit Sharma can changed into the eighth skipper from his crew to attain so.
Team India ODI skipper Rohit Sharma. (Source: Twitter)
Team India ODI captain Rohit Sharma is eyeing a sequence whitewash in opposition to West Indies after they two facets face off within the third and closing ODI at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday (February 11). India wait on 2-0 sequence lead after profitable the 2nd ODI on Wednesday (February 9).
Opener Rohit is also eyeing a particular landmark of his have as he will get in a position to bat within the third ODI. It’ll be India’s first sequence sweep since 2017 if skipper Rohit manages to gain this toes after 2017, when Virat Kohli led the crew to a 5-0 retract over Sri Lanka.
India maintain managed a complete of 11 neat sweeps of their ODI ancient past with the legendary Kapil Dev first captain from the country attain gain the milestone. Alongside with MS Dhoni, Kapil is per chance the most attractive captain to maintain led India in three ODI neat sweeps.
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Dilip Vengsarkar, Mohammad Azharuddin, Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane maintain led India to an ODI sequence neat sweep and Rohit can changed into the eighth skipper from his crew to attain so. Pakistan and South Africa lead the checklist of most ODI neat sweeps having executed so 20 instances every.
If opener Rohit hits a six at the novel time, he will surpass dilapidated India captain and novel Chennai Big Kings skipper Dhoni within the checklist of most sixes by a batter in ODIs in India. Currently, both are degree on 116 sixes in India (in ODIs).
Then again, Dhoni took 113 innings to hit these while Rohit equalised the dilapidated India captain in comely 68 innings.
Ruturaj Gaikwad recovers, out of COVID-19 isolation
India batter Ruturaj Gaikwad, who had examined certain for COVID-19, has recovered and is out out of isolation. Then again, with skipper Rohit Sharma already making it obvious that senior opener Shikhar Dhawan will open the innings within the third ODI in opposition to West Indies right here on Friday, the Maharashtra participant is unlikely to be regarded as for the inconsequential match.
Ruturaj warmed the bench within the home T20 sequence in opposition to New Zealand and likewise didn’t get a probability to play in opposition to South Africa within the away ODI sequence. He develop into came upon to be COVID certain comely four days forward of the begin of the West Indies sequence, practically ruling him out of the rubber.
Ruturaj hasn’t been integrated within the T20 squad and, in all likelihood, will now turn out for his home suppose within the upcoming Ranji Trophy.
On February 2, a COVID-19 outbreak had hit the Indian cricket crew as three players – Dhawan, reserve opener Gaikwad and heart-declare batter Shreyas Iyer – examined certain for the virus all the contrivance in which through their necessary isolation duration forward of the begin of West Indies sequence.
Four other persons, alongside side accumulate bowler Navdeep Saini, had also examined certain for COVID-19. Saini develop into on the standby checklist.
(with PTI inputs)
